Category: In the Media

  • CNN: In Gaza, living with anger and fear

    By Ashley Fantz | CNN (CNN) “Listen, listen to this!” shouts Fida Qishta as the crackling of rockets is heard over her phone receiver. “It’s difficult for anybody to imagine that in a second, maybe when I am talking to you on the phone, maybe something [will] happen to me or to my family,” the…

  • ei: “They know no limits now”

    By Eva Bartlett To view original article, published by Electronic Intifada on the 4th January 2009, click here In the haze of dust and smoke from the latest F-16 strike, a family self-evacuates. The dispatcher at the Jabaliya Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) receives call after call from terrified residents fleeing their homes. It’s a…

  • The Guardian: Do Israeli pilots feel happy killing innocent women and children?

    By Fida Qishta – ISM co-ordinator in the Gaza Strip To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 3rd January 2009, click here A Palestinian in Gaza chronicles life under Israeli bombardment Saturday 27 December I go to visit friends in the Block J neighbourhood in Rafah in the south of the Gaza…

  • The Guardian: Land, sea, sky – all will kill you

    By Karma Nabulsi To view original article, published in The Guardian on the 3rd January, click here Mohammed is burying his family. So is Jamal. Haider doesn’t feel safe in his flat so is sheltering in his car. In a series of phone calls to friends besieged in Gaza, one writer reveals the reality of…

  • BBC: Palestinians ‘fear worse to come’

    To view original article, published by the BBC on the 2nd January, click here A British volunteer in the Gaza Strip has said civilians there believe there is worse to come after seven days of bombardment by Israeli forces. Jenny Linnell, 33, who left her job in a Totnes cafe to work for the International…